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Adventist Mission

Youth and Adult Mission Quarterly

3rd quarter features the Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division

3rd Quarter 2025

Finding True Happiness

July 5, 2025

Privilege’s dad didn’t notice, and the two boys began stealing beer and drinking together. Denroy imagined that he felt happier every time that they drank. That summer, he began to drink heavily. During the school year, he and Privilege drank only once a week, but during summer vacation they drank nearly every day.

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Furious Father

July 12, 2025

Dad didn’t like Adventists. Mom had been raised Adventist but had stopped going to church because of Dad. When Tanya returned home, Dad told her that she could go to any church except the Adventist Church. He didn’t say why.

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A Wise Decision

July 19, 2025

Over the next two months of rehearsals, the dancers taught Genius how to smoke without choking and coughing. First, they taught him to smoke tobacco. Then they taught him to smoke marijuana, which is illegal in Zimbabwe. Genius began to buy tobacco and marijuana with the allowance that he received from his parents. It was just enough money to join the dancers in smoking at their weekly rehearsals.

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Crying For Rain

July 26, 2025

“Dear God, it will be so difficult for the work that You have assigned us to do to move forward without water,” one student prayed. “We need to carry the three angels’ messages to the world,” prayed another. “Without water, it will be so difficult.”

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Unexpected Sabbath Rest

August 2, 2025

As the weeks passed, Tracy changed her mind about her Saturday plans. She had thought that she would need to study or relax in her room on Saturdays. But she didn’t need special time to relax on Saturdays because everyone was resting.

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“We Are Thankful”

August 9, 2025

This was not how things were done where Siyabonga lived. He had never experienced anything like this before. But he liked it. He felt motivated. He felt empowered. He felt closer to God. Then Siyabonga began to feel bad about the bad things that he had done in his life. He felt guilt. He felt sorrow. He humbled himself before God and asked for forgiveness.

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Hearing God, Hating Sin

August 16, 2025

As people start to drink, fights inevitably break out. Uapahurua once saw a drunken teen push another and snarl, “Get out of the way. I want to pass you.” The teen who was pushed fought back. Other teens joined in, and a knife fight erupted.

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Wanting to Know God

August 23, 2025

The church experience was unusual for Kazuvakua. The pastor taught songs, and he preached. The songs were new and difficult for Kazuvakua to learn. She had never heard about the God whom they were singing about. But she liked the songs. She liked the message of the songs. The songs spoke about a God who provided for all of people’s needs.

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Remarkable Rainfall

August 30, 2025

More than anything, Tjiyapana wants a Seventh-day Adventist church building to be constructed on his land. The nearest church building is located in town, and it takes seven hours to walk there. Tjiyapana, like many Himba people, doesn’t own a car. He has already offered a plot of land to the Adventist Church to build a church.

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Drinking, Theft, and God

September 6, 2025

With tears, he humbled his heart before God and repented. “Dear God,” he prayed. “If this is a lesson from You so I change my ways, I promise that I will become a better person with Your help. Please release me from this place.” Fifteen days later, the police unexpectedly freed Bethel and his three friends. Bethel didn’t know why.

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Miracle Hospital

September 6, 2025

With tears, he humbled his heart before God and repented. “Dear God,” he prayed. “If this is a lesson from You so I change my ways, I promise that I will become a better person with Your help. Please release me from this place.” Fifteen days later, the police unexpectedly freed Bethel and his three friends. Bethel didn’t know why.

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2nd Quarter 2025

From Unlucky to Loved

April 5, 2025

Chhaina felt torn. He knew that Adventists loved Jesus. He hated Jesus. But he loved the guitar, and he really wanted to learn how to play.

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The Only Living God

April 12, 2025

Reading the Bible, he learned that the God of Israel had pleaded with His people thousands of years ago not to bow down to images of stone and wood. Surachet’s religion bowed down to images of stone and wood.

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Missionary or Vacationary

April 19, 2025

Renato had a heart-to-heart talk with God during the funeral. “Give me strength to answer the question that my adopted father gave me,” he prayed. “Did I come here to be a missionary or a vacationary?”

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Setting Prisoners Free

April 26, 2025

Sometimes the young man needed food. Pork and seafood, which are popular dishes in Thailand, were served often at the prison, but the young man didn’t eat unclean food.

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Long Walk to God, Part 1

May 3, 2025

After eating, Pada accompanied Morja, Morja’s wife, and their three children on a long walk to church. There was no Adventist church in their small town, and they needed to walk eight miles (13 kilometers) to the nearest church in another town.

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Long Walk to God, Part 2

May 10, 2025

Pada had never gone to school. Now he was 15, and he wished that he also could go to school. As he thought about his predicament, he wondered, “Could it be that this is why Morja became an Adventist?

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Does God Answer Prayer?

May 17, 2025

How many of his prayers do you think God has answered? One hundred? Fifty? Perhaps 10 or 15? If you ask Somsak, he will tell you none. Zero. Zilch.

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Strange Noises at Night

May 24, 2025

“We have heard them many times at night, and we can’t sleep,” added the wife. The couple spoke about hearing unusual voices, mysterious footsteps, and strange objects being dropped on the floor at night.

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So Many Rules

May 31, 2025

Febiola wasn’t so sure that the rules were good. The university seemed to have so many rules. It was almost overwhelming compared to her old life with her grandmother. Febiola felt so oppressed!

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Squid or Dog Meat?

June 7, 2025

Then something unusual happened. He began to feel uncomfortable worshiping on Sunday. He felt so uncomfortable that when he was asked to preach at his church, he made excuses about needing to go somewhere else.

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Praying for Churchless Town

June 14, 2025

But then he saw a town on Sentani Lake without any Adventist church and without any Adventists. His small boat passed the town of Yoboi as he sailed to another town with church members.

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Jungle Miracle, Part 1

June 21, 2025

Back inside the hut, Armi and his friend carefully cleaned the wound. Beads of sweat broke out on their faces. They were worried about making the wound worse.

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Jungle Miracle, Part 2

June 28, 2025

“I kept praying, and the pain went away,” she said, using hand gestures to help them understand her dialect. “I believe that it’s because of Jesus. Even though I don’t understand who He is, I’m grateful that you have brought Him into my life.”

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